Chapter 43
Chapter 43: Detecting Jiang Tea Tea’s Monster Spiritual Power And Moving To Capture Her
The sharp, icy glint of the scissors stunned Jiang Tea Tea. In her heart she shouted: [The pervert mud loach’s subordinate is also a pervert. She had already faked being dead and shriveled like this. Shouldn’t they just throw the whole bucket, mud and all, off the ship?]
[They were still here studying how to cut her in half at the waist of her trunk to see whether she was still green or not. Green their ancestors for eighteen generations, green.]
“Commander in Chief.” Minister Lu saw that the Commander in Chief did not speak, so he did not dare lower the scissors. After all, this sapling had been carried over by the Commander in Chief. It belonged to him. He had the final say.
Chong Ming looked at the little sapling, unable to understand how such a green sapling had turned into this in such a short time: “Minister Lu, do you really need to cut off so many branches to see if there is any green left?”
So the Commander in Chief disliked how much he was about to cut off. That was easy to fix. He would just cut less.
Minister Lu moved the scissors up along the main trunk. The place he stopped at happened to match Jiang Tea Tea’s neck if she changed into human form.
Jiang Tea Tea was very speechless: [These scissors were either interested in her waist or in her neck. If she had known, she would have turned into a huge tree they could not dig up.]
Minister Lu said: “Cutting a little is enough. We mainly need to see whether the inside of this tree has withered and turned to dust.”
“If the inside has not withered and turned to dust, it might mean it is not used to the water and soil. Losing its leaves is for the sake of better absorbing nutrients and adapting to the environment.”
Chong Ming thought for a moment, then reached out and moved Minister Lu’s scissors: “This little tree is already not big, and it does not have many branches. Cutting a bit to check is enough.”
The scissors now rested just a little above Jiang Tea Tea’s main trunk. If she shifted to human form, that would be the top of her head. In other words, one cut and she would become a bald little tea tree spirit.
Minister Lu smiled: “Commander in Chief, if we follow how horticulturalists prune plants, all four branches of this sapling would be cut off, leaving only the main trunk.”
“Especially for plants kept at home or planted in places for viewing, they are trimmed from small to big without stopping. Only then can they grow into shapes with artistic viewing value. Cutting a little will not affect anything.”
Jiang Tea Tea: […]
[Artistic viewing value, my foot. Plants could feel pain. They just did not have mouths to speak, and they could not run away.]
[As a tree, who did not want to grow wildly and lush? They trimmed and trimmed until all the arms and legs were gone, and still said it was artistic?]
[Please. These stupid primates should have their hair shaved off, then their hands, feet, and ears all cut away, and then we could say they had viewing value. See if they were ugly or not, if it hurt or not, if they screamed or not.]
[They were all talking while standing, so of course their backs did not hurt. When she got her monster spiritual power back, anyone who dared say this kind of thing in front of her, she would slap across the face.]
Chong Ming said in a low voice: “There is no need to cut that much. Just cut a little. Its leaves were very pretty before.”
The leaves of the little tree were almost exactly like the ones on the branch he had picked up at the First Hotel.
“Alright.” Minister Lu answered, opened the scissors, and brought them down toward the top of the sapling’s main trunk.
Just as his scissors were about to touch the main trunk, at the last critical moment, the lights in the healing department gave a sharp crackling sound and went out all at once.
The healing department fell into darkness. Jiang Tea Tea took the chance to stir her spiritual power. She was just about to pull herself free from the bucket of mud and form hand signs for invisibility when a bright light flared in front of her.
Chong Ming gathered a large ball of fire in his hand and lit up the entire healing department: “Power maintenance department, what is going on with the large scale outage in the healing department?”
Jiang Tea Tea could not run now. She could only keep staying in the bucket, using her little branches to look down on Chong Ming.
The power maintenance department answered: “Reporting to the Commander in Chief, our readings show the power system of the whole ship is fine. There is no outage in the healing department.”
Chong Ming ordered: “Check it again. I am in the healing department right now. The power is out here, and even the backup power did not turn on.”
The power maintenance department replied: “Yes, Commander in Chief, we will check at once!”
Minister Lu had not cut into the little tree trunk. He put the scissors down: “Commander in Chief, I will also go take a look.”
Chong Ming tossed the ball of fire in his hand up into the air. The fire stopped in midair and lit the entire healing department.
Jiang Tea Tea: […]
[So he had a fire element ability, and his supernatural abilities were so strong he could make fire into a solid ball and control the size of the flame as he liked, even use it for lighting.]
[If his lightning element abilities were even stronger, then he was more powerful than ten or eight Sui Xuan Chu put together. If she wanted to beat him and take back her pride, she would have to wait until all her spiritual power recovered.]
Just as Jiang Tea Tea was thinking this, the power maintenance department sent a new message: “Commander in Chief, we have finished checking. Two segments of wiring in the power system and backup power system of the healing department have burned out.”
“We are repairing them now. The backup power should be back on in at most three minutes, and the main power system should recover in ten minutes.”
Chong Ming said: “After the power system recovers, do a full check on the power system of the whole ship. We cannot let it happen again that even the backup power burns out.”
The power maintenance department answered: “Yes, Commander in Chief!”
Chong Ming cut the connection, reached out to pick up the bucket, and left the healing department.
Jiang Tea Tea was laughing to herself in secret: [She had used spiritual power to burn two bits of his wiring. This time he would throw the whole bucket with the soil off the ship, right?]
But the dream was sweet, and reality was very harsh.
Chong Ming did not throw the bucket and dirt off the ship. Instead, he carried the bucket back to the command room again and set it on the table.
He glanced at the holo projection screens in front of him, then raised the wrist wearing his light-brain wrist terminal. He opened the terminal and typed in a search: “Plant transplant care.”
Jiang Tea Tea was furious: [She had spent so much spiritual power she was almost starving, and one bucket of crappy dirt and a single bug were nowhere near enough for her to eat.]
[She could not just sit and wait to starve. She had to break the situation by causing another power outage.]
Jiang Tea Tea acted as soon as she decided. She stirred her spiritual power again and swept through the command room’s power system.
With a sharp crack, the lights in the command room flickered, then the whole area fell into darkness. The backup power once again did not come on.
Jiang Tea Tea had already made her plans. She slipped out of the command room under invisibility, and she did not forget to change that bug gnawing on her roots into a copy of her own little sapling form and stick it in the bucket.
Minister of the information department Cai Xi Chao cried out: “Commander in Chief, I just caught that unknown energy wave again, even stronger than before!”
Chong Ming’s brows drew together. He gathered a fire light orb and tossed it into the air. The fireball split into two, two into four, four into ten, becoming ten fireballs that lit the whole command room.
He ordered: “Power maintenance department, restore power to the command room as fast as you can.”
The power maintenance department was stunned and anxious: “What, the command room’s power system has also gone down? Commander in Chief, we will restore it at once.”
It was too sudden, far too sudden.
How could the command room lose power? This had never happened before.
“Right here.”
Everyone in the information department had dark screens because of the outage, except for Cai Xi Chao’s holographic screen. She was using her own light-brain wrist terminal to operate it.
“Commander in Chief,” Cai Xi Chao said, “that unknown energy wave that was similar to the energy around Jiang Tea Tea and her schoolmate when they killed the three-headed mutant giant python is right here in our command room!”